Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Document-oriented databases are one of the main categories of so-called NoSQL databases and the popularity of the term " document-oriented database " ( or " document store ") has grown with the use of the term NoSQL itself.

The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

The term gained popularity with the advent of the X Games, a made-for-television collection of events.

Appearing with the term, and helping spread and sustain its popularity, was a political cartoon depicting a strange animal with claws, wings and a dragon-type head satirizing the map of the odd shaped district.

The popularity of the term was enhanced by Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

The popularity of " contemporary folk " recordings caused the appearance of the category " Folk " in the Grammy Awards of 1959: in 1970 the term was dropped in favor of " Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording ( including Traditional Blues )", while 1987 brought a distinction between " Best Traditional Folk Recording " and " Best Contemporary Folk Recording ".

LaGuardia's popularity slipped away and he ran so poorly in straw polls in 1945 that he did not run for a fourth term.

" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.

Appearing with the term, and helping to spread and sustain its popularity, was a political cartoon depicting a strange animal with claws, wings and a dragon-like head satirising the map of the odd-shaped district.

The popularity of Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg, published one year later, further entrenched the term in the public's consciousness.

The use of the term Islamism was at first " a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize " with new Islamic movements ; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly publicized acts of violence.

The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U. S. and Canada.

Private mints have also attempted to capitalize off the popularity of the Krugerrand, minting gold and silver bullion rounds ( the term coin denotes legal currency ) in the style of the Krugerrand.

", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.

The term has gained popularity in the English-speaking world since the mid-twentieth century but currently there is no accepted opinion, nor a notable debate if a ' second order philosophy ' is, or could be, something different from ' plain philosophy '.

Nevertheless, deconstruction and Derrida's popularity continued to increase.

The continuing stream of books on Derrida — over 150 titles since 2000 versus about 25 for John Searle and about 40 for Richard Rorty, for example — indicates no abatement in the popularity of deconstruction in relation to other competing trends in Philosophy.

In the 20th century, the popularity of the tale appeared to snowball, with many new versions being written and produced, especially in the wake of Freudian analysis, deconstruction and feminist critical theory.

Despite Confucianism losing popularity to Taoism and Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism combined those ideas into a more metaphysical framework.

In Norway, popularity of the Holmenkollen, and Nordic combined in general, was great.

The alliance combined Caesar's enormous popularity and legal reputation with Crassus's fantastic wealth and influence within the plutocratic Equestrian order ( ordo equester ) and Pompey's equally spectacular wealth and military reputation.

However, his popularity suffered from the economic downturn that followed the 1973 energy crisis, marking the end of the " thirty glorious years " after World War II, combined with the official discourse that the " end of the tunnel was near ".

The increasingly popularity of the sport combined with " catch and release " practices have in some cases led to an overpopulation of bass.

Soon, its popularity and natural beauty, combined with changing commuter habits, attracted more and more residents, changing its character to that of a suburban community.

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were the leading proponents of Western Swing, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences and horn sections ; Wills's music found massive popularity.

These developments, combined with the fact that auto-loading 35mm cameras could be made almost as compact, as convenient, and as inexpensive as APS-format cameras, prevented APS from attaining greater popularity.

The popularity of oatmeal and other oat products increased again after the January 1997 decision by the Food and Drug Administration that food with a lot of oat bran or rolled oats can carry a label claiming it may reduce the risk of heart disease when combined with a low-fat diet.

Coincidentally, several new CB Radios have recently been introduced to the UK market and their popularity with traditional CB users, such as truckers and farmers, combined with a prolific advertising campaign in Amateur Radio magazines sold in the high street, is resulting in a significant number of sales.

As Adams had chosen a low salary combined with a one-third ownership stake in Get Smart during the show's production, he received a regular income for many years due to the show's popularity in reruns.

The dragon motif was first combined with the already standardised Passio Georgii in Vincent of Beauvais ' encyclopedic Speculum Historiale, and then Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( ca 1260 ) guaranteed its popularity in the later Middle Ages as a literary and pictorial subject.

In the 2006 federal election, many Bloc insiders believed that Duceppe's popularity, combined with the unpopularity of the Liberal Party in Quebec, would push the Bloc Québécois over the symbolic majority vote mark among Quebec voters.

Under the inspired leadership of Lino, the Company developed into a modern industrial concern and in 1951, with a workforce of over 300, the company began to diversify into gas and electric ( and combined gas / electric ovens ); and, with growing availability and popularity of gas cylinders, it brought out the first gas cooker – the legendary Rex 401.

Billboard eventually created a fourth singles popularity chart that combined all aspects of a single ’ s performance ( sales, airplay and jukebox activity ), based on a point system that typically gave sales ( purchases ) more weight than radio airplay.

Because of this, and combined with the scarcity of the arcade version, the NES version eclipsed its arcade counterpart in popularity.

G-factor is an indicator of the popularity or importance of each university's website from the combined perspectives of other institutions.

Due to the popularity of " Scotland in miniature " ( Arran ), Goat Fell is a very popular peak and there are many possible routes of ascent, some of which may be combined with visits to the summits of other nearby peaks.

The alliance would have combined Ardzinba's backing by part of the business community and his financial resources with Khajimba's elector popularity.

Equipment used varies widely in this field, but surface supplied equipment though quite uncommon in the UK is growing in popularity in the U. S. The short number of dives made by scientific divers in normally quite shallow water, and the UK governmental regulations that make surface supplied equipment cumbersome, when combined with a need for easy transportation make surface supplied gear uneconomic and undesirable for UK scientists to use.

This, combined with Cooper's personal popularity, led to his victory over Wetherby by 65, 000 votes.

The general popularity of ice hockey strengthened through international success of the Finland men's national ice hockey team, and the combined attendance climbed through the 1990s to about 1. 8 million.

Urban sprawl combined with higher fuel prices has caused an increase in popularity of these systems in recent years.

In the late 1990s, the success and popularity of the American Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, which specifically emphasised its own small scale and " underground " nature, combined with the growth of internet discussion boards and tape trading, generated a new interest in British wrestling among local fans of the American wrestling scene.